FIDE announces the line-up for the FIDE World Chess Grand Prix Series 2019

Tuesday, 19 February 2019 12:43

It is going to be the strongest Grand Prix cycle in recent times, and we are pleased to see that nearly all the World's top players are taking part. FIDE World Chess Grand Prix introduces a new attractive format, and we are looking forward to an exciting Series.

Please see more details and allocations of players:

MOSCOW

RIGA

HAMBURG

TEL-AVIV

1

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

2

Anish Giri

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Alexander Grischuk

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

3

Wesley So

Anish Giri

Hikaru Nakamura

Anish Giri

4

Levon Aronian

Wesley So

Yu Yangyi

Wesley So

5

Alexander Grischuk

Levon Aronian

Ian Nepomniachtchi

Levon Aronian

6

Hikaru Nakamura

Alexander Grischuk

Peter Svidler

Sergey Karjakin

7

Sergey Karjakin

Hikaru Nakamura

Teimour Radjabov

Yu Yangyi

8

Ian Nepomniachtchi

Sergey Karjakin

Veselin Topalov

Ian Nepomniachtchi

9

Peter Svidler

Yu Yangyi

Dmitry Jakovenko

Teimour Radjabov

10

Teimour Radjabov

Peter Svidler

David Navara

Veselin Topalov

11

Dmitry Jakovenko

Veselin Topalov

Radoslaw Wojtaszek

Dmitry Jakovenko

12

Radoslaw Wojtaszek

David Navara

Wei Yi

David Navara

13

Wei Yi

Jan-Krzysztof Duda

Jan-Krzysztof Duda

Radoslaw Wojtaszek

14

Jan-Krzysztof Duda

Pentala Harikrishna

Pentala Harikrishna

Wei Yi

15

Nikita Vitiugov

Nikita Vitiugov

Nikita Vitiugov

Pentala Harikrishna

16

Daniil Dubov

Daniil Dubov

Daniil Dubov

Israeli Nomination

We’d like to note our cooperation with the Grand Chess Tour that allowed every eligible player to participate in both Series in spite of this year's unprecedentedly tight Calendar.

Full details and information about the Series is available at WordChess.com.